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by keanzu 7y ago
If anyone reads the parent here and doesn't agree then watch "You Have the Right to Remain Innocent" by James Duane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FENubmZGj8
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How China built facial recognition for people wearing masks(arstechnica.com)
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by keanzu 7y ago
A TikTok spokesperson said the goal was to prevent bullying on the platform, tying the document to a report from December that showed that the company was suppressing vulnerable users’ videos in a misguided effort to prevent them from beco
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by keanzu 7y ago
My guess is that flags are responsible for a lot of weird movement in the front page ranking. You flag an article and it starts losing spots - a number of people do it and the article can die entirely. The flag count is hidden to prev
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by keanzu 7y ago
I think that everything you've described here is "fair game" and mechanisms available to all of us.
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by keanzu 7y ago
> When I said we didn't touch this post, I meant we did nothing to affect its rank. Ok, that's clear and unambiguous. > If that sounds scandalous It sounds like you are following through on exactly what you said you were doi
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by keanzu 7y ago
Oooh, oh, are you kidding me?! This is the meanest and most hilarious thing anyone has ever said to me on HN! Two words and I got accused of being a spam bot making a "not constructive" and/or "unhelpful" comment! D
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by keanzu 7y ago
Wow, that's fantastic, best xkcd ever!
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by keanzu 7y ago
The accusation was the #1 ranking. Nobody mentioned any intervention in the discussion.
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by keanzu 7y ago
If you mean that you don't signal boost YC posts then why not say that? Moderating less means to me reads as if they are less likely to be downgraded in ranking. if YC disable_moderation; Age all posts, push them down the ranking
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by keanzu 7y ago
Reminds me of: Dr. Barry James Marshall who showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused primarily by str
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by keanzu 7y ago
Under Europe's rules, airlines operating out of the continent must continue to run 80% of their allocated slots or risk losing them to a competitor. Risk losing their slots to a competitor? No airline is making money right now and no
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by keanzu 7y ago
Basic Economics, Fifth Edition: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465...
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by keanzu 7y ago
It's 45 domain names. Facebook sent them a list. No-one said anything about manually checking every name until you did.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Exactly: In the extreme, perfectly black objects have no visible contrast whatsoever as demonstrated by Vantablack. https://www.wired.com/story/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-s...
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by keanzu 7y ago
> faces of non-caucasian individuals The Chinese government, operating the biggest surveillance state on the planet, have had no trouble with the faces of non-caucasian individuals, historically or otherwise. Their facial recognition sys
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by keanzu 7y ago
> ex-felons, low wage workers, people of color, and the likes "people of color" are not "the likes" of ex-felons and low wage workers.
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by keanzu 7y ago
The document we were looking at for poisoning was from 2011. 10 Leading Causes of Injury Deaths by Age Group HighlightingUnintentional Injury Deaths, United States – 2011
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by keanzu 7y ago
Arguably, the fastest fighter jet computer in the world is in a U.S. Air Force F-15E. It’s the Advanced Display Core Processor II (ADCPII) and it’s capable of processing 87 billion instructions per second. http://www.boeing.com&#
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by keanzu 7y ago
Do F-15s not have flight data recorders? The NTSB is generally able to figure out the state of the jet for all airliners that went down by looking at the FDR.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Destin was, until late 2018, a full-time Missile Flight Test Engineer at Redstone Arsenal. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Alabama Huntsville advised by Kavan Hazeli. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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by keanzu 7y ago
Over time, regardless of the sorbent used, sticks of dynamite will "weep" or "sweat" nitroglycerin, which can then pool in the bottom of the box or storage area. For that reason, explosive manuals recommend the repeated
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by keanzu 7y ago
Tory Bruno, CEO of the United Launch Alliance, made rockets out of 80yo moldy dynamite. 6m10s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdPoVi_h0r0
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by keanzu 7y ago
If I thought it would help I'd send my fence off to be trained as a Navy physician but it seems to be able to handle the task fine without the additional training.
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by keanzu 7y ago
> I don't mind leaving my child unattended for a short period in a safe area. ...and safety is relative to this child's capability. My parents put me through extensive swimming lessons from a young age precisely so they could l
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by keanzu 7y ago
Exactly it isn't physical strength. A strong swimmer is someone who removes "drowning" from the list of options as long as they remain conscious . This is a critical point when boating - friends have asked why I always wear
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by keanzu 7y ago
I have a pool. I have a fence. A friend's son was visiting, also four years old, vanished for just a second and suddenly I thought Oh god, the pool. Sure enough there he was stuck outside the fence trying to get to the pool but frustra
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by keanzu 7y ago
I see they have a category "Unintentional Pedestrian, Other" unable to find a glossary. Possibly refers to being hit by MV while a pedestrian? Unintentional Poisoning seems really common for adults?! Misuse of prescription drugs a
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by keanzu 7y ago
So none of those activities resulted in your death? Or are you posting on HN from beyond the grave?
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by keanzu 7y ago
Somehow people don't realize the danger that pools possess. Swimming is one of the few activities that children engage in which can go so wrong as to end up in their death. I would suggest that it is borderline negligence for a parent

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